Les deux piliers de la construction territoriale : coordination des acteurs et ressources territoriales

• Main Author: Hadjou Lamara
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Réseau Développement Durable et Territoires Fragiles 2009-07-01
• Series: Développement Durable et Territoires
• Subjects: territory; territorial development; coordination of actors; territorial resources
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/8208

The main objective of this article is to try to highlight the main components of what makes territory. In the abundant literature developed over the past three decades on this conceptual category, it is difficult to find an appropriate definition. Hence the need to attempt a synthesis which does not pretend to be exhaustive, but simply trying to facilitate reading of this new paradigm of development is necessary. The basic assumption underlying the different conceptions of the territory consider it as social construct derived from a combination of coordination of actors, meeting to solve a productive problem and resources which are activated for a renewed dynamic of the territory. The latter is characterized by the mobilization of actors who following a logic of cooperation and coordination of their actions. The logic of cooperation can be realized through the establishment of diverse governance systems, different from the traditional mode of regulation which is the market. Contracts, agreements, networks, and formal or informal cooperation are a range regulation models that are mobilized by the actors to transform their space in a dynamic territory. Secondly, the territory is based on the revelation of latent resources, preferably specific, non-transferable, identified and activated by the mobilization of actors.